With the release of Never Ending #1, due in stores tomorrow from Dark Horse Comics, the Amelia Cole writing team of D.J. Kirkbride and Adam P. Knave make a move on superheroes.More specifically, on the superhero. In his world, Chuck (no superhero name) is essentially Superman; he’s the big cheese, and he’s been fighting a mad scientist (sometimes in a suit of armor) for decades. What’s his problem? Well, he’s functionally immortal and is tiring of his friends and family dying all around him while he just lives on. His solution? Ask his arch-nemesis for help.Help killing him, that is.Kirkbride and Knave joined ComicBook.com for a discussion on the series, a three-issue mini that debuts tomorrow at comic book stores and on the Dark Horse app.ComicBook.com: What made you guys bring this to Dark Horse? I mean, you’ve been doing pretty well at Monkeybrain. Is it just the similarities that it seems to have to Edison Rex?DJK: Never Ending had been in development before MonkeyBrain came into our lives, so it wasn’t an option when Adam, Robert, and I first started talking. When we first heard about Edison Rex from Chris, I did have an “Oh crap…!” moment, but I believe you told him about it, Adam, and we all felt comfortable that the ideas, aside from a very basic, ground-level component, were completely different, right?APK: Yeah. A lot of stories use the same first building block and go wildly different ways. Edison Rex is fantastic, I love it, but we aren’t telling the same tale Chris Roberson and Dennis Culver are, at all. Certainly not in tone, but also very much not in specifics.ComicBook.com: Is it really difficult, bringing something new to the superhero genre these days? I feel like there are so few books that succeed at it, while most of the mainstream superhero books get to bring in new characters and ideas but almost nobody brings in a whole new big-I Idea.
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